Monday morning showers.  A walk with Robert--almost 4 miles.  We had left over potato soup with chard and garlic sausages for lunch.  Gunther and Eliza and Anders and Auggie came over for supper last night, so it was warm and cozy at my house (I had on my samll gas fireplace as the weather has turned the inside of our houses very cold.)

The day before Thanksgiving, both Gunther and Sigrid had called me to ask me how I made  turkey dressing.  That was a wonderful high point for me--to have both of my kids call for advice!  This year was a little different as Jim and Sigrid, Trevor and Chloe had dinner with his mom, Gina (who just moved out here this summer from Detroit.)  Then they went camping with a group of friends they know from Jim's old coffeeshop hangout, Jennifer's in Studio City.  They all went to Canyon Country in Santa Barbara.

So we had G & E, A & A, their friends Marion and Stephen and their two little ones, Claire and Luke (they were the friends who spent six months doing research in India this year).  Of course we had Fumiko and Robert.  We baked gingerbread men for the kids to decorate before dinner to keep them amused, but they all played very well.

 A very satisfying day.  And now back to work this week.  I want to do some writing!